History of the Liverpool Medical Institution, in special relation to the question of the lease / by Thomas H. Bickerton.

  • Thomas Herbert Bickerton
Date:
[1904?]
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Credit: History of the Liverpool Medical Institution, in special relation to the question of the lease / by Thomas H. Bickerton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    between the Corporation and the Library Committee, because it shows that the Medical Library had even then a strong claim on the Corporation, which was duly recognised. For the next six years the Library carried on its good work without disturbance; but in 1833 a special meeting was called for April 23rd to consider a notice from the Clerk of the Liverpool and Manchester Eailway Company relative to giving up the building at present occupied by the Library for the purpose of the erection of a contemplated station; and it was resolved to obtain an opinion as to the legality or propriety of the Committee of the Medical Library instituting a claim on the Committee of the Eailway Company for compensation in respect of the proposed ejectment. What the opinion was is unfortunately not known, nor is there any record of the contents of an important memorial to the Mayor and Corpora- tion which was agreed to at a special meeting of the Medical Library three months later, on July 15th, 1833. But on the 4th of November 1833 a meeting was summoned for the pur- pose of conferring as to the best means to be adopted for obtaining from the Corporation a building for the purposes of the Library, in lieu of that at present occupied, and on the loth of March 1834 a letter was received from the Finance Committee stating that it was resolved to recommend to the Council to authorise the granting of a lease of a house in Houghton Street, Clayton Square, to the Board (of the Medical Library), so long as it shall be appropriated to the uses of the Medical Library. This lease was to be free of rent and fine —another important fact to be noted as regards the relations in the past with the Corporation of Liverpool. It also appears that this lease was handed to the Treasurer of the Library, though the Town-Clerk states that, after an exhaustive and unsuccessful search, no trace of it can now be found at the Corporation offices, and the only evidence of its existence is in the Estate Committee's minutes, where the following words appear against the property in the Street Eegister kept by the Corporation— given to the Medical Board for the use of
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